Colt Walker

The Colt Walker, sometimes known as the Walker Colt, is a single-action black powder cap-and-ball revolver. The Colt Walker was the result of a collaboration between American firearms inventor Samuel Colt and Texas Ranger Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker. Captain Walker had acquired some of the first Colt revolvers produced during the Seminole War, and saw first-hand how effective they could be as his 15-man unit defeated a larger force of 70 Comanches in Texas. Walker wanted to order Colt revolvers for use by the Rangers in the Mexican–American War, and traveled to New York City in search of C...